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"We have said all along that BC’s out-of-date, colonial mineral tenure regime violates Canada’s own laws, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and our Gitxaała laws. Now BC’s highest court has agreed." - Gitxaała Chief Councillor Linda Innes

Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.

Brandi Morin in Ecuador: Indigenous water defenders take on a Canadian mining giant The proposed Loma Larga gold mine represents a ‘ticking time bomb’ for arsenic contamination in the region

Big news today, as Ecuador has revoked the licence for a Canadian company to develop a massive gold mine.

Brandi Morin reported from Ecuador on this mining project in May, with locals telling her it was a ‘ticking time bomb.’

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Fifty years of the Waitangi Tribunal | E-Tangata “In this 50th anniversary year, the Tribunal and Te Tiriti are under a sustained attack from perhaps the most anti-Tiriti government that we’ve seen since the Tribunal was established.” — Carwyn Jones...

“In this 50th anniversary year, the Tribunal and Te Tiriti are under a sustained attack from perhaps the most anti-Tiriti government that we’ve seen since the Tribunal was established.” — Carwyn Jones.

Paige and Steph were invited by Lil'wat and N'Quatqua to see why the temporary park closure matters, not only to the First Nations but to the park itself. A beautiful story to read & witness on the last day of the fall closure.

The cover of Tricky Grounds: Indigenous Women's Experiences in Canadian University Administration by Candace Brunette-Debiassige. A woman in a ribbon skirt faces away from us, on a piece of land, her braid connects to forests seen in the distance and she has her right arm raised holding a feather.

This is a must-read for anyone in academia. While it focuses on administrative positions in certain parts, it's such an excellent resource with stats and critiques of all the indigenization/reconciliation rhetoric that it's got something for everyone. Highly recommend.

There are literally over 30 legal orders and a half dozen resolutions from First Nations Leadership telling ISC what to do next- comply with the orders, stop fighting First Nations kids in court and pull back discriminatory policies and conduct.

Comments of Premier David Eby counterproductive to true, lasting reconciliation Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

"By artificially pitting recognition of and respect for First Nations’ human rights against the interests of who he refers to as “real people”, Premier Eby has employed a strategy that belongs firmly in a dark and less enlightened time." www.ubcic.bc.ca/comments_of_... #bcpoli

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Black and white poster with purple muskox circle design in the center, with Jurisdiction Back written in bold white letters. Event time, location and speaker list included.

Join us at UVic First Peoples House on Sept 25 & 26 for "Jurisdiction Back: Restoring Indigenous Governance through an Ethic of Care". Such an incredible gathering of Indigenous law & governance practitioners, scholars, artists, visionaries. Free registration forms.gle/i1WaihgZ6aMn...

Inside Richmond’s Precedent-Setting Cowichan Tribes v. Canada Case | The Tyee The BC Supreme Court decision affirms Aboriginal title on private lands. What’s next?

Some things I learned while writing this story on Canada’s new “pillar” of Aboriginal Law, Cowichan Tribes v. Canada, for @thetyee.ca:

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UBCIC Stands with Survivors of St. Augustine’s Residential School Following Further Investigation by shíshálh Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

"UBCIC raises our hands to the survivors, elders, and leaders for their strength in retelling the extremely traumatic stories of what happened to children at St. Augustine’s Residential School, and to the investigators for documenting and sharing evidence" www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_stands...

Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) are used to protect the reputation of professors and universities, often a condition of a resolution. They serve to mask the enormity of sexual misconduct in our institutions & preventing survivors from sharing their experiences of harassment and assault.

Renowned University of Victoria professor fired over sexual harassment allegations | CBC News The University of Victoria has fired one of its longest-serving professors after complaints he sexually harassed two women — including a graduate student. In his 45 years at UVic, Robert Gifford pione...

What is surprising is not the sexual harassment of students by a prof but the fact that this story made it into the news. How about an investigative report on the use of NDAs by universities during settlement of sexual harassment & assault investigations?

“We are deeply saddened, but these numbers are not a surprise to us. We have always believed our Elders. This wasn’t a school, it wasn’t a choice, and the children who attended were stolen,” said Chief Lenora Joe. “We didn’t need the GPR to prove this happened; we always had enough proof to know.”

Wildfire south of Port Alberni, B.C., grows aggressively, knocking out power for hundreds | CBC News The Mount Underwood fire near Port Alberni, B.C., has grown to 859 hectares and knocked out power for 500 B.C. Hydro customers southwest of the blaze.

Huu-ay-aht territories are experiencing a new swiftly growing wildfire - ignited only yesterday, it is now upwards of 1300 hectares. Keeping community & loved ones in the area in my thoughts as they face yet another impact of climate change on their lands and lives.

Syilx-led Climate Justice in a Global Context (2023/2024) — ICER PRESS

Brilliant conversation on the meaning of “climate justice” from local Indigenous relations to global circuits of power: “Syilx-led Climate Justice in a Global Context”, featuring Jeanette Armstrong in dialogue with @naomiaklein.bsky.social & Onyx Sloan Morgan. www.icerpress.ca/live-recorde...

After Summit, UBCIC Gravely Concerned with Canada’s Shift Away from Consent and Environmental Protections Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

"We will not be legislated to; we will uphold our Title and Rights recognized under section 35 of the Constitution. We are the First Peoples of the Land; we are not Canada’s Indians." - Chief Don Tom www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_gravel...

Open Letter: CFN Urges Prime Minister Carney to Uphold Oil Tanker Moratorium on BC’s North Coast Coastal First Nations sends an open letter to Prime Minister Carney, vowing never to permit oil tanker traffic through the Great Bear Sea.

Coastal First Nations are not just another Canadian ‘stakeholder’ but self-governing Nations for whom “anything that proposes to send crude oil through our coastal waters is a non-starter.” Read the open letter from Heiltsuk Chief K̓áwáziɫ Marilyn Slett coastalfirstnations.ca/resources/op...

Grateful for permission to draw on research I conducted with @ubcic.bsky.social on Indigenous women's laws & land governance, part of UBCIC's work to center Indigenous legal orders in land restitution processes like specific claims. Full report here: www.ourlawsarisefromtheland.org/discussion-p...

I'm grateful to have permission to draw on research I conducted with @ubcic.bsky.social on Indigenous women's laws and land governance, part of UBCIC's broader work to center Indigenous legal orders in land restitution processes like specific claims. www.ourlawsarisefromtheland.org/discussion-p...

I take up Cole Harris's historical geography of BC's reserve formation, revisiting archival and scholarly sources to reveal the multiple forms of dispossession Indigenous women experienced simultaneously.

(Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive Revisiting Cole Harris’s Making Native Space, this article responds to Harris’s assertion that settler attitudes toward Indigenous people were not gendered but that, rather, it was the civilization...

Excited to share that my article "(Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive" is out today with the Annals of the AAG @geographers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cornell law professor Sandra Babcock discusses a major new human rights report she co-authored, which adds to the growing consensus that "Israel has committed and is committing the crime of apartheid" against Palestinians.

The report was released Thursday, on what Palestinians mark as Nakba Day.

We’re much more lethal outside of the house…21 extra days to power up the movement to get rid of them #onetermgovt

Families Fight for Answers in Deaths of Three Young Indigenous Women Three years later, loved ones say they’ve hit a brick wall with police, coroners and MCFD.

"It's been three years since the deaths of Tatyanna Harrison, Noelle O'Soup and Chelsea Poorman."

"If you were to help someone hide a crime, that in itself would be a crime."

"So I don't know what happens when our justice system does it."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Policing #Genocide

Tatyanna Harrison’s Cause of Death Disputed by Independent Forensic Pathologist: Families, Justice For Girls, and UBCIC Call for Coroner’s Inquest into Deaths of Tatyanna Harrison, Chelsea Poorman and... Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

"The investigations into the tragic deaths of Tatyanna, Chelsea and Noelle are shocking and shameful displays of systemic racial discrimination which showcase the enduring failures of the Canadian justice and child welfare systems." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip www.ubcic.bc.ca/justice_for_...

What Carries Us Through Our Darkest Days | The Tyee One week after the Lapu-Lapu Day tragedy, a community stands together.

“Search ‘Lapu Lapu Day’ and results are about the Vancouver attack. I want to share what the celebrations were meant to be about.”

A 250-year plan is in the works to protect Okanagan-Similkameen watersheds A quarter-millennium is a long way into the future — but for syilx Okanagan leaders, it’s essential to protecting everyone’s siwɬkw (water) for generations

A 250-year plan is in the works to protect Okanagan-Similkameen watersheds

A quarter-millennium is a long way into the future — but for syilx Okanagan leaders, it’s essential to protecting everyone’s siwɬkw (water) for generations

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